Greater Arizona eLearning Association (GAZEL)

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• Greater Arizona eLearning Association (GAZEL)
• E-Learning Research Portal (ELRP) Project
  Overview
• Presented March 2, 2006 by
• Mark Goldstein, President, International Research
  Center
• [phone], markg_at_researchedge.com,
  http//www.researchedge.com
• Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA -
  http//www.ida.org/) funded study
• Proposes a web portal project to provide
  government researchers and other e-learning
  research communities with a rich and highly
  relevant e-learning research database, coupled
  with sophisticated retrieval, visualization
  collaboration tools to aid research productivity
  quality
• Utilizes a custom taxonomy, XML variant,
  semantic analysis, and meta tagged database, with
  continuous automatic manual updating, covering
  e-learning research institutions and
  practitioners, related Communities of Practice
  (CoP), topical news feeds, relevant literature
  external resources
• Search capabilities support a variety of
  querying, navigation, and presentation functions
  and capabilities, including clustering of
  relevant results, advanced 3-D visualization and
  knowledge navigation, targeted strategic alerts,
  as well as user designated pathways to relevant
  knowledge

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• This E-Learning Research Portal (ELRP) would have
  a variety of tangible and intangible benefits, as
  well as a substantial impact on the e-learning
  research community, and perhaps the e-learning
  industry as a whole. Some of the expected
  tangible benefits include
• Improved productivity for practicing e-learning
  researchers and increased opportunities value
  in connecting collaborative players
• Depth and quality of search assures good
  grounding for initiatives
• Underlying ontology and taxonomy efforts will
  define, refine, and aid e-learning research and
  industry strategic focus
• Improved e-learning research will yield improved
  e-learning products, enhancing their deployment
  and effectiveness
• Improved e-learning and its deployment will
  serve training needs for workplace skills and
  drive economic engines around the globe
• Project implementation risk low using existing
  emerging toolsets
• Modest budget to pilot (250K), implement
  (750K) and sustain
• Multiple practical scenarios for
  institutionalizing with long-term maintenance,
  evolution support of multiple research
  communities

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E-Learning Research Portal Home Page
E-Learning Resource Index/Links
E-Learning Communities of Practice
E-Learning Research Query Entry
E-Learning News Feeds Blogs
Meta Data Repository
E-Learning Researcher Collaboration
CoP Discussion Groups
Information Processing
Knowledge Visualization Navigation
Discussion Groups Archive
Collaboration Environment Tools
About, Contact, Press Releases
Privacy Policy, Terms of Use, Disclaimer
Institutions Researchers Directory
End User Feedback Data Input
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Data Sources
Information Architecture
Information Architecture Management
Interviews/ Surveys
E-Learning Research Knowledge Map
Knowledge Map, Taxonomy XML Authoring
Management Tools
User Feedback Suggestions
E-Learning Research Ontology/Taxonomy
Online Submittals
E-Learning Research XML Variant
Information Warehouse
Results
Queries
Communities of Practice Indexing
E-Learning Research Meta Data Repository
Information Processing
Autonomic Semantic Analysis Meta Tagging
Selective Web Site Indexing
Data
News Feeds Blogs
Manual Review Meta Tagging
Data